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BENJAMIN GALU WILLIS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 10, 1946 – August 22, 1968
Service recordBenjamin Galu Willis, of Leone, American Samoa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 22, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 35
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 10, 1946
- Home of record
- Leone, American Samoa (Western County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 22, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date August 22, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 35
- ALLEN PRICE WEAVERSergeant First Class · August 22, 1968
- WILLIAM EUGENE WEBERPrivate First Class · August 22, 1968
- BLAINE ALFRED WELCHLance Corporal · August 22, 1968
- THOMAS RALPH WELLSPrivate First Class · August 22, 1968
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.